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Subject: Re: I noticed there is a small error on the setting of CMQueen+

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:02:08 04/22/00

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On April 22, 2000 at 11:44:54, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On April 22, 2000 at 09:06:09, Michael Cummings wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2000 at 08:11:36, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On April 21, 2000 at 21:01:17, Michael Cummings wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I have not paid much notice to these games, but which book did you think was the
>>>>strongest. CM6000.OBK is the strongest, the mentor.OBK or whatever is called is
>>>>exactly the same, but it has a few notes that the help and the tutorial uses. So
>>>>I have seen some people say the mentor is stronger than CM6000.OBK, thats funny
>>>>and strange when it is the same book.
>>>>
>>>>I just hope you have used satisfactory settings, do not use any more than 2 meg
>>>>hash for these short games, otherwise this will affect the games if they are too
>>>>big.
>>>>
>>>>When you play about 200 more games, then I will look more closely at your
>>>>results, I have played enough games battling chessmaster against chessmaster
>>>>personalities to know 50 games means very little. Cause when you play those 50
>>>>games again, the result can vary dramatically.
>>>>
>>>>You want to know another result that is also funny, over 20 20minutes games, the
>>>>Karpov personality beat the Chessmaster by winning 14 games ?????
>>>
>>>I do not care much for the original Chessmaster personality, since it lost very
>>>bad to my CMQueen+ personality setting Using the CM6000.OBK book, long before I
>>>started to post my finding on this message board, therefore, only then knowing
>>>that I discover this strong setting I Started to switch from one book to another
>>>just to find out that the original CM6000.OBK (default book) is indeed the
>>>strongest.
>>>
>>>PS: If you still remember how to set the CMQueen+ setting, Please do me a favor
>>>and pit it against the Karpov personality, recommend to use a time setting of a
>>>minimum of 1 hr/per side, pit it as many times as you are satisfied or in the
>>>case when one setting is winning by a large margin, then  it becomes useless to
>>>continue playing beyong 50 games.
>>
>>When you play personalities to see which is stronger, you should do it this way,
>>otherwise your results can vary greatly, and most of the time, especially a
>>short time settings, up to 15% of the games could be doubles of games previously
>>played.
>>
>>So if you were playing your CMQ+ vs CM6000, have CM6K play white, finish the
>>game, then have your CMQ+ play white from the end of the opening CM6K played in
>>the previous game.
>>
>>Testing any other way is not acceptable (to me that is). My way your results
>>reflect purely on your personality settings and nothing else.
>
>Your way of testing seems very logical to me, therefore, I will provide you with
>the CMQueen+ setting and I hope that you honestly test it against Karpov
>personality or any of your choice. In case you never read the setting for CMQ+
>here is the setting.
>
>Personality    CMQueen+
>
>Opening Book   CM6000
>
>
>Style            Positional          Material
>
>AD   5           M/P  -5             Ow Q   9.9    (Please do not change these
>SOP  100         COC   105           Op Q   9.7     controversial value for the
>                                                    Queens or rooks)
>R    0           M     120           Ow R   5.0
>MSD  20          KS    100           Op R   4.9
>
>SS   8           PP    110           Ow B   3.2
>COD  1.0         PW    100           Op B   3.2
>
>TD = ON                              Ow K   3.1
>DT = ON                              Op K   3.1
>
>                                     Ow P   1.0
>                                     Op P   1.0

The typographical error was made under the M/P of the positional column, it
should have been M/P -5 instead of M/P 5, please correct the setting if you are
testing it.



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